What is the official system email address assigned to Cicis franchisees?
Cicis Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
ranchisees can communicate by e-mail or similar electronic means. If we develop an Intranet, you will use our Intranet in accordance with all applicable Laws and in strict compliance with the standards, protocols, and restrictions that we include in the Manuals (including standards, protocols, and restrictions relating to the encryption of Confidential Information and prohibitions against the transmission of libelous, derogatory, or defamatory statements).
J. Branded E-mail. We reserve the right to require you to obtain from us and use an e-mail address associated with our registered domain name. If we require you to obtain and use an e-mail address, you must do so according to our then-current System Standards. You acknowledge and agree that we will have unrestricted access to all such e-mail accounts, and all documents, data, materials, and messages shared from or by such accounts.
Source: Item 22 — CONTRACTS (FDD pages 64–65)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Cicis Franchise Disclosure Document, Cicis reserves the right to require franchisees to obtain and use an email address associated with their registered domain name. If Cicis requires a franchisee to obtain and use such an email address, the franchisee must do so according to Cicis' then-current System Standards.
Cicis will have unrestricted access to all such email accounts, including all documents, data, materials, and messages shared from or by such accounts. Cicis may deactivate any such account or limit the franchisee's or their users' access to it at any time.
The franchisee must use the email address only in connection with the operation of their restaurant and in compliance with all laws. The franchisee cannot use the Marks or any abbreviation or other name associated with Cicis or the System as part of any email address, domain name, or other identification of the franchisee in any electronic medium.